BandSwap collaboration hits high note

Visiting musicians to play today through Sunday in Fort Collins

2:38 PM,
Oct. 4, 2012

Fort Collins band Common Anomaly is part of SpokesBUZZ's BandSwap project. The local indie-rock band played a double-bill with Memphis-based blues/rock band The Soul Thieves at the Memphis club Newby's last week and now both bands will play a similar show today at Hodi's Half Note in Fort Collins.

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Stacy Nick
StacyNick@coloradoan.com

No one is completely sure where exactly the idea for BandSwap came from, but everyone is pretty sure it sounds like something SpokesBUZZ would spearhead.

Dubbed a "musical and cultural alliance," BandSwap pairs up five Fort Collins bands with out-of-state markets ranging from Memphis to Portland for a double bill with one of the best local bands from that city. They play one show in their respective host city and then come home to perform a reciprocal double-bill gig here.

Dani Grant, founder of SpokesBUZZ - the Fort Collins nonprofit organization works to support the local music scene - ...